School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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“One Monday morning from a man for sixteen pence I bought a pair of hand som pidgents....”
One Munday morning from a man for sixteen pence I bought a pair of handsom pigents to try them so I taught I had taken them for young ones but I had a dout you know for when I let them goe the knew their way Just as well as me. I whistled and I called them but my trouble was all in vain you might give ten to one my boys the would never come back a gain O you should see them go you should see them fly and to my one and fourpence I said goodby.
I started for the fair with spirits light and harty behind mcartys mair we were a noble party you never saw the like of it before, believe me what I say We had a roring racket for the mair she ran away Of she went Of she went for I wasent wort a sent for the sent was Just as hard as flint behind mcarties mair hold her in mcarty aried stop her said mchoo I taught she would shak to pices as a long the road she flew my hed was spinning like a top my heart was in the spair. And I taught the dive himself was in the wheels behind mccarties on